The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the
stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE
and introduces some new features.

Some of the highlights:

The zfs(8) filesystem has been updated to support the bookmarks feature.

The uname(1) utility has been updated to include the -U and -K flags,
which print the __FreeBSD_version for the running userland and kernel,
respectively.

The fetch(3) library has been updated to support SNI (Server Name Identification), allowing to use virtual hosts on HTTPS.

Several updates to gcc(1) have been imported from Google.

The hastctl(8) utility has been updated to output the current queue sizes.

The protect(1) command has been added, which allows exempting processes from being killed when swap is exhausted.

The etcupdate(8) utility, a tool for managing updates to files in /etc, has been merged from head/.

A new shared library directory, /usr/lib/private, has been added for internal-use shared libraries.

OpenPAM has been updated to Nummularia (20130907).

A new flag, "onifconsole" has been added to /etc/ttys. This allows the
system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the device is an
active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent to off.

The GhostBSD team is pleased to announce the
availability the third BETA build of the 4.0-RELEASE release cycle is
available on SourceForge for the amd64 and i386 architectures. This is
expected to be the final BETA build of the 4.0-RELEASE cycle.
This release includes some bug fixes as well as new and updated
packages. This release also includes the changes from direction GhostBSD
is taking, Three workstation that is build a top of MATE desktop
Classic, Purity, Element. We hope that you will enjoy this change!

After the recent reminder about the upcoming EoL for FreeBSD 9.2, many
of you have expressed concerns over the fact that support for 9.2 would
end before 9.1, and over the short time available to upgrade from 9.2 to
9.3. As a result of your feedback, we have decided to postpone the EoL
date for 9.2 to December 31, 2014.
Note that due to technical limitations, freebsd-update(8) will continue
to warn about the approaching EoL for 9.2 until the next errata notice
or security advisory is published.

We're back and this week we'll be showing you how to tunnel out of a restrictive network using only DNS queries.
We also sat down with Bryan Drewery, from the FreeBSD portmgr team,
to talk all about their building cluster and some recent changes.
All the latest news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

When checking for restricted access via .htpasswd files, bozohttpd fails to properly check for truncation, allowing specially crafted requests to bypass access control without a password. Files of length 10 or more are not affected.

For FreeBSD developers interested in attending EuroBSDCon 2014, the
FreeBSD Foundation is currently taking applications for travel grants.
The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel
grants to individuals requesting assistance.